Classroom Notes Room 20 May 6-10

Good Week! Thanks to everyone who came and helped during Art Night. It was a true success! Room 20 received many compliments! This week, we will finish our book reports. Book reports are sue this week. Students can start turning them in on Tuesday. The presentational format will be of the student and their partner's choice. In math, we will get into small groups and create a math board game, thanks to an idea I'm stealing from Ms. Jen. The content will be based on math concepts from the year. I can't wait to see them and play them! They will be introduced this week! We are about halfway through our literary analysis paper. This is a five-paragraph essay on one of three kinds of conflicts that arose from a story entitled, "Passage to Freedom." Students have been working hard developing ideas, organizing their thoughts, using excellent and specific words, using quotes from the text and including page numbers from where they referenced-- VERY MIDDLE SCHOOL! We will officially start a mini unit on North American Indians the week of May 13th. It is my intention to highlight the fact that there were and continue to be such a diversity of cultures from tribe to tribe. We started the year learning about United States geography. We will now learn about the different regions before Europeans came to this continent.